At the Blind Pig house we’ve never celebrated Valentine’s Day very much. There’s been the occasional candy, card, meal, or flowers over the years, but most of the time we don’t do anything nor even say Happy Valentine’s.
A few weeks ago Bev generously shared some of her vintage cards and postcards with me. I especially love the card used at the top of this post.
The girl is adorable in her red dress, hat, and shoes. And of course I love that she’s playing an instrument and even seems to be dancing a jig 🙂
The inside of the card is special too. What a beautiful message to send to a friend!
There’s a name on the back: Delia Glidewell. I suppose that’s who Miss Mattie sent it to on February 14, 1908.
Here’s some posts about love I’ve written over the years.
- The Cake of Love
- A Crazy Love Story
- Kin = Love
- Apple Pies & Love
- My Favorite Love Song
- A Valentine in the Woods
- Love Jerry
On this day for love, I’m wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day. I kin you!
Last night’s video: Our New Favorite Soup: Venison Noodle Soup – So Easy & So Good!
Tipper
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I make heart shaped biscuits for breakfast on Valentine’s Day. When our oldest daughter was around 4 my husband came home with a box of chocolates. He’d found it on the clearance shelf already when he had to stop for something else on the way home from work. We each picked a chocolate each night after supper until it was gone and moved on with life. The next year I made the heart shaped biscuits and my daughter gasped and said to her little sister “that means it’s valentines and daddy’s gonna bring us some chocolates home to share! It’s TRADITION!” Needless to say he went and got those chocolates and it’s been our tradition every year since our oldest is 10 now. We all look forward to sharing those chocolates for a few nights after supper! I know it’ll be a sweet memory for them one day.
L-love that so much 🙂
Love to you all !!!
Shelia told about her marriage proposal. When my husband went to ask my Dad if he would give his approval for us to marry, the first thing Dad said was “ she can’t make biscuits. “ My husband said that’s ok I can eat canned biscuits. That was 58 years ago.
Tipper, you inspired me with your biscuit recipe and over the last year I have learned to make biscuits that even my Dad would be proud of. Thank you for the recipe and courage to try to make biscuits. Just thought you might like to know you helped an old gal learn something new.
Happy Valentine’s to all.
Sally-thank you for sharing about your marriage proposal 🙂 So glad you like the biscuits!
Happy Valentine’s Day and lots of love to the Presley and Wilson families .
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!!!
Happy Valentine’s Day, Tipper, and all of your family. I enjoyed reading the former posts , especially Pap’s letter to Granny and Apple Pies and love.
I’ve known a few people who’s surname was Day but to my knowledge none of them ever named one of their girls Valentine. What a missed opportunity!
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours!
A beautiful card for sure! It’s bitterly cold here in Indiana this morning. I’m waiting on my favorite valentine to pick me up after a week of international work travel. We may have lunch in honor of this day . But happy to be home again.
Tipper I went back and read one of your posts about having a husband to rub your feet and clean up after you ! I’m happy to have been blessed with someone just like that too. Much love to you and your family today and everyday. Thanks for sharing.
I have a bunch of old valentines from an antique store in Minnesota. They are all from different people who sent them. It is sad that someone saved them to wind up in an antique store. The oldest one is from 19o4. They are so pretty compared to today’s Valentines.
I have a story about me & my husband when he ask me to marry him. I t was the day before Valentines Day. I was in high School he was out got his first job at Enka textile mill. He came over and said he needed to talk to me in private. so we went to my bedroom and left the door open. He handed me a little box with a beautiful ring in it. He didn’t say, “Will you marry me, he said, you will marry me, won’t you?” He said try this ring on and see if it fits. I did and told him, yes I’ll be happy to marry. Then he said, give back the ring and I’ll bring it back on Valentines day, tomorrow. I said uh-huh, it’s stuck and your mine, now you have to go ask Dad.
we went in the Den where the family was and said to Dad I need to ask you and Mrs. Seal something. He went on saying, I know I’m suppose to ask your daughters hand in marriage, but I want all of her. Daddy laugh, Mom got tickled, but said, you got her.
been my Dad was a Preacher he told us. You will have to find someone to marry you two. I can’t do it, but I will give her to you.
So yesterday we celebrated 46 years of day he proposed to me. And the 13th has always been our Valentines Day.
Sheila thank you for sharing your great Valentines story 🙂
Shelia, I don’t think I ever ask my wife (Janice) to marry me. We were talking about it and she had picked out an engagement ring at a jewelry store in the Belltower Mall in Greenville, SC. Without her knowing it, I bought her the ring and hid it my 8 track tape case. I ask her to get a tape out of the case, when she saw the ring she was speechless. That is a memory I will take to my grave. We told her parents later that night we were going to get married, they only said we have been expecting it. I also remember my father in law telling me, “ I have never beat on her mother, if you lay a hand on Janice to hurt her, I will kill you.” He was one of my best friends, and often said I was his son in law, the other 4 son in laws belonged to my mother in law. At the time I bought her ring, I was looking and wanting to buy a Browning Sweet Sixteen Shotgun. I would tease her and tell my wife “don’t make me regret buying that ring and not my gun.” I not only got her, but my Sweet Sixteen later on. Looking back I guess that wouldn’t the least bit romantic, but it got it done! If she was still living, this year would be 51 years of marriage plus 2 years of “going together.” This morning I not only went to her grave but by our closed high school and just looked at the walkway were we would stand together and talk during our lunch period in 1972 and remembered the joy and happiness we had through our years together.
Shelia, awesome story! .
i was looking for something to make with my defrosted ground turkey, i’ll try this like you said in the video. think i’ll still use the beef stock, though, make it heartier…
We kin youas well. Hope it’s not too cold for you and Matt to take a walk in the woods. That greeting card was sent the same year my grandfather was born! Enjoy your day!
Happy Valentine’s Day!! I don’t remember a lot about giving cards when we were first married but in the last part of over 50 plus years I think we did give cards. Even before he passed, when he couldn’t get out and get a card he would make one, but more important every night before he went to bed he would say “I love you.” I have wonderful memories of raising children with him and in retirement of traveling some. He is truly missed.
I’m using this Valentine’s Day to do for others. I made little treat bags and baked heart shaped sugar cookies for Mom and the fellow residents at her assisted living facility. Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be just about romantic love. God loves us and that is cause for celebration!
Happy Valentine’s Day to each & everyone. We didn’t make a big deal out of the day either except that my husband would make me a “hand made” card out of any thing he could get his hands on. And then there were more hugs & kisses on that day than on a normal day throughout the day.
Fair warning, I’m gonna go off on a side trail for a bit. One of the hardest, quite possibly the hardest, lesson in life is to live in the present. For myself, I only succeed by bits and pieces. In that respect, at least, I truly do (as I have been often accused) think too much. I remember very well the first time I realized that we mostly don’t live in the present. I was lying in a sleeping bag on the bank of a little KY branch looking up through the hemlock limbs at the stars. And I was altogether there and no place else. That relates to letting people know you care about them because it sheds a lot of unimportant. So let me say to each and every BP&A’er, you all matter to me and to the country.
Sheds a lot if unimportant….wise words !
What a pretty card and a darling message to go with it! The instrument resembles a lute or mandolin; I always thought they were beautiful instruments. 🙂
Happy Valentine’s Day to your family!
Happy Valentines day to all on the BP&TA! Love reading everyone’s stories. Have a great day.
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
Happy Valentines Day to you too, Tipper. I really enjoyed your post today and also all the past ones you listed. Like you and Matt, hubby and I don’t make Valentine’s Day a big deal. We have also occasionally exchanged a card or candy or even went out to dinner. My favorite fun for Valentine’s Day is helping the kids make valentines. This year I provided stickers and paper and envelopes and markers and we made valentines for their other grandparents and cousins. The fun part for them was putting on stamps and actually putting them in the mailbox. I always did this with my own children and now with my grandchildren. I also always make sure they have a candy treat. My son always loved conversation hearts and my daughter always loved chocolate. The grandkids are all chocolate lovers. I really enjoy Valentine’s Day fun—I just don’t expect or want an expensive gift. It’s a nice day when I make us dinner and hubby gives me a big hug and a valentine card or a piece of chocolate —and tells me he loves my cooking!
We never have celebrated much either on Valentines Day, but I am today!! My husband, Michael is getting a new lung! Special gift!!!❤️
Diana-I hope all goes well! I will pray for him!
Diana, wishing a very special happy Valentine’s Day to you!
Happy Valentine’s Day to all of the BP&TA family.
It’s a cold day for Valentine’s Day here in Virginia.
Stay warm folks. God Bless
My yard is white this morning with frost from the rain we had the last two days. Next weeks forecast calls for temperatures to be more like the ones we had in January. One morning close to my special day is forecast to morning temperature of 18 degrees. This is for Greenville, SC.
wow, that’s very old card, I have some stored away somewhere, not particularly Valentine’s Day but old cards, Happy Valentine’s Day, I love you, but Jesus loves you more
Happy Valentine’s Day! We don’t do much on this day either. We show our love every day.
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone! My wife and I never made a big deal out of Valentine’s Day or the other days either for that matter. I guess we tried to show our love for one another each day throughout the years we were together. I bought and gave her a card on our last Valentines Day together on earth in 2021. I liked it and bought it without looking first at the price, it cost $12. She kept telling me “I can’t believe you paid that much for a card.” I told her if she didn’t think she was worth it, I would take it back and see if I could get my money back. I also told her I thought a sympathy card would have been more appropriate anyway after putting up with me for 47 years. The last words we ever said to one another on earth was telling each other “I Love You” as they were taking her out of the room for heart surgery that she didn’t survive.
Randy,
I wanted to say your reply touched me to tears as yesterday I had heart surgery and had no one with me as my children couldn’t be there with me because of their own situations and I am estranged from the rest of my family. I just know your wife is looking down on you today saying “I love you” on Valentine’s Day. Blessings from Ohio friend.
Bless you! I hope the surgery went well and will pray for your healing!!
Charolette, I will pray that your recovery will go good. My wife was healthy as a horse, except for her heart, everyone thought her surgery would be a breeze, but a blood clot formed during the surgery. This was 2021 during COVID, I will always believe the first two vaccinations were the cause of the blood clot.
Charlotte, saying a prayer for you today.
you have such a great sense of humor. I. really enjoy you and a few more of you that post funny Dittys. Most people spell it Daye but it would sound the same. The two Casadas were good with humor. Happy Valentines Day!